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History: Careers
Career Information and Further Study
Skills gained in this program include:
Career Choices
Alumni in History have found employment in the following fields:
What percentage of graduates goes on to find related employment?
50%
Salary Information
Salaries range greatly from one occupation, position, and work setting to another. According to the September 2006 NACE national salary for bachelor's degree graduates, history salaries averaged $33,071.
What percentage of graduates goes on to graduate school?
10 - 15%
- Making use of past experiences in reaching current decisions
- Following trends to predict shifts in political views or consumer tastes
- Monitoring profit cycles and changes in government policies to provide up-to-date business information
- Reading rapidly and extracting relevant data
- Interviewing: eliciting information from people outside an organization, and supplying it to people on the inside
- Documenting a conclusion and presenting it clearly, either verbally or in writing
Career Choices
- Archivist
- Biographer
- Business administrator
- Consultant
- Counselor
- Editor
- Foreign service officer
- Historian
- Journalist
- Lawyer
- Librarian
- Market research analyst
- Public official
- Researcher
- Teacher
Alumni in History have found employment in the following fields:
- Archival and library management
- Banking
- Civil service
- Communications
- Education
- Federal, state, and local government
- Foreign service
- Investment services
- Law
- Marketing and advertising
- Museums
- Newspapers/media
- Non-profit organizations and institutes
- Public relations
- University administration
What percentage of graduates goes on to find related employment?
50%
Salary Information
Salaries range greatly from one occupation, position, and work setting to another. According to the September 2006 NACE national salary for bachelor's degree graduates, history salaries averaged $33,071.
What percentage of graduates goes on to graduate school?
10 - 15%
Updated: May 22, 2008 3:53:41 PM